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border blaster

border blaster noun: a broadcast station used to target listeners in another country, despite not being licensed to do so.

Noun

border blaster (plural border blasters)

  1. A broadcast station used to target listeners in another country, despite not being licensed to do so.
    • Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control them […]2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197

Forms of border blaster

pluralborder blasters

Questions about border blaster

What does border blaster mean?
Border blaster means a broadcast station used to target listeners in another country, despite not being licensed to do so.
What part of speech is border blaster?
Border blaster is a noun.
What is the plural of border blaster?
The plural of border blaster is border blasters.

Words near border blaster in the dictionary

  1. Bordens
  2. Bordentown
  3. border
  4. border ballad
  5. border ballads
  6. border blaster
  7. border blasters
  8. Border City
  9. border collie
  10. border collies
  11. border control

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